Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-02-04
THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Science Of Ho,ue,,,akf,,o.

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Not every woman is born to be house.
keeper. While the world stands there viii be-
women to paint, to sing, to teach, to write, and
women to make crazy quilts-idle women and
women OF business, wise women and foolish
women, beauties and drudges, old maids and
mothers, and women good for nothing under
ing shops, schools and factories, homes and
hotels, bathrooms and churches, theaters and
libraries, business houses and club-rooms,
houses to suit all occupations and women to
suit all occupations. The house, the wsman
and the work should all fit
10 shut up every woman in dwelling house
and make OF her an animated broom and dust
pan Is to abuse great many women and ruin
great many houses. But though woman
may hold in her hand q pen tipped
that paints her name in glory, or a ohisel
that carves her fame among the ever living
great-the woman who makes her home
the perfect home for those who are of her
family is the one that does the best thing any
forced conditions of life Men must work,
and home should be for them above all things
place of rest It must be, then, q place Of
bodily comforts ana mental cheer. It must
DC place Of order and quietnesa It should
90 . clearly place scolding and iIl-temper
FOR home is not . substances thing; it is an
essence. True housekeeping consists not only
in cleaning things but in keeping them clean
SUI, there is such thing ~ keeping house
S too insiousy Cleanliness that foIbds free
let trees grow about their house because they
shed their leaves. know . woman who calls
up the members of her family to measure
their finger prints when she detects such
marks on her window glass or. wood
never stepped on . door sill, but always care
fully over it, SO strong did the impression re-
main with him of his mothers rigid house,
keeping. -
Homemaking must be cooperative bust
ness. In matters Of propriety and manners it
The woman may urge upon her children the
observance Of good manners, but il their
father persists in doing ill-mannered things
every good lesson to the children il . reproaeh
to him In material matters ~ well, no woman
can keep house unless her husband lets her.
defy any woman that has not command Of
funds to make home. II it is but half her
husbands income and she has control Of it.
the evidence will be seen in the bounty of her
housekeeping; but il she has TO beg like .
contracted view Of the domestic horizon, and
the need OF the moment will absorb the dollar.
If the husband holds the pocket-kook snap
under his thumb it will be impossible for tho
wife to be good wife. The woman must bo
made responsible, she must have an outlook;
picture Of his ideal woman, and she has her
husbands financial confidence She Is .
woman with plans and resources and means to
work with. Her husband trusts her; che plana
vineyard; she buys field when she has
considered it; she works willingly with her
hands, but she does not abuse herself; she
makes herself strong and strengthens her
arms. An honest trader, she looks to see that
what she sells is good; economical, she can
afford to be charitable, and she stretches ous
her hand to the poor. She does not wait for
tramps to come begging. She does not forget
her own appearance, but secs to it that she
has the finest Of clothing. Her husband Co
operates with her in the maintenance of hex
! state, and he is known in the gates, and ia
himself one of the dignitaries. Her speech
shows wisdom, and the law of her tongue is to
speak kindness; she looks to the ways of her
house; she is not SO busy with her boarding,
or sewing, or reading, or dressing, or buying,
or selling, that she has not time to look after
the ways of her husband and children Her
children bless her in their hearts, and her
husband praises her; he tells her for her sake
all women are good in his eyes, but she excels
them all
And Solomon sums it all up in the wise
COUNSEL sGive her of the fruits of her hands,
and let her own works praise her. "-Leora &
Robinson, in BROOKLYN Eagle.